1,806 Quotes About Reason

People keep asking me, how do I frame my work of science and philosophy in such a humane fashion – somehow they believe there’s some sort of method for doing that – and I can’t manage to convey it to them that I know no other way to put it – if you ask a river, how does it flow the way it does, can the river give you a diagram or method, it can’t – the same is with me – I don’t know any other way in which to present my ideas.

I do not believe in God. It seems to me that theists of all kinds have very largely failed to make their concept of a deity intelligible; and to the extent that they have made it intelligible, they have given us no reason to think that anything answers to it.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart — the best brain.

While guilt is great, reason is always better. Because… such a beautiful word; so marvelously effective, so persuasive.

All gods have this problem, Hwi. In the perception of deeper needs, I must often ignore the immediate ones. Not addressing immediate needs is an offense to the young." "Could you not reason with her and...""Never attempt to reason with people who know they are right!

When human reason and human warmth become one, self and society are bound to become one.

I accept the fact that there is always a way out in every situation we find ourselves but, until we begin to ponder, panacea will be very scarce

Tell a devout Christian that his wife is cheating on him, or that frozen yogurt can make a man invisible, and he is likely to require as much evidence as anyone else, and to be persuaded only to the extent that you give it. Tell him that the book he keeps by his bed was written by an invisible deity who will punish him with fire for eternity if he fails to accept its every incredible claim about the universe, and he seems to require no evidence what so ever.

The beliefs of the people should adapt to new ideas, instead of new ideas adjusting to old beliefs.